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(No'ModeL) A. P. JUDD. BRACB PQR SCREEN DUORS. No. 515,340. Patented Feb. `27, 1894.

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ADELBERT F. JUDD, OF ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO KNUT E. KNUTSSON, OF SAME PLACE.

BRACE FOR SCREEN-DOORS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 515,340, dated February 27, 1894.

Application i'lled July 20, 1892. Serial HvA/10,691. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, ADELBERT F. JUDD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Rockford, county of Vinnebago, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Braces for Supporting the Free Edges of Screen-Doors, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a brace for screen doors having a connection with the upper end of the door on its hinged side, and extending downward diagonally and connected with the front side of the door by means of which the sag of the door is prevented, or applied to doors which sag, thereby holding the door free of the floor so that it may swing freely.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l, is an elevation of a screen doory in which its front side is sagged. Fig. 2, is an elevation of a screen door to which my improvements have been applied sustaining the door clear of the floor. Fig. 3, is an isometrical representation of the cam lever employed in connection with the brace wires. Fig. 4, are representations of the brace wires.

The screen doors to which my improvements are applied may be any of the known constructions.

My improved brace consists of a central cam handle portion l having a stud 2, depending from one of its faces, said stud having one of its faces cut away as at 3. The circular end of the handle is provided with two series of openings 4 and 5.

In placing the brace on the door a Wire 6 having one end bent at 7 enters one of the l holes 4 from the front face side of the handle, its other end 8, being bent and in this instance sharpened, is driven into the upper corner of the door at the hinged side of the door. A wire 9, has its bent end 10, inserted in the remaining hole 4, and extends along the inside of the handle portion and having its other end 11, bent and driven into the front side of the door at a point downward and oblique from the front of attachment of the wire 6, a staple 12, is -driven over the wires near their connection with the door to prevent the wires becoming disengaged. When 5o the wires are secured to the door the cam handle will stand at right angles to their length, that is, the series of holes will extend in the lengthwise direction of the wires,and the inner ends of the wires will be separated the distance between the holes 4, and by turning the handle so that it will extend in the lengthwise direction of the wires/the Wires will be drawn toward each other until their inner ends lie as shown at Fig. 2. The handle por- 6o tion is turned far enough to allow the stud 2, to engage the wire 9 on its opposite side, and the depression 5, preventsv the unfastening of the device.

I have provided the series of holes 5, in order that the front end of the door may be raised to a greater extent than the holes 4, would raise it.

I claim as my inventiony A brace for screen doors consisting of a le- 7o ver having one end in handle form, from one face of which extends a stud having a recess in one side, the other end of the lever having a series of holes in a line at right angles to the length of thelever, sustaining wires having both ends bent at right angles to their length, one end of each capable of beingdriven into the wood work, the other end inserted in the holes in the lever, and when the device is in place one of the wires lying in the re- 8o cess in the stud.

ADELBERT F. JUDD.

Witnesses:

A. O. BEHEL, E. BEHEL. 

